Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3438, William Farmbrough, Va

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
Farnborough, William
R. 3438
CONTENTS

3438
P. O. _____
W m Farnborough
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

38, 325,
Wm Farmborough
India
Ret'd June 1882.
3438
lit. Ap 12/82
Jas. Hanson
Shelbyville
Ind. ✓

Wm Farnbrough Ind.
Act 7 June 1832.
let 12 Apr '5-2
Jas Harrison Shelbyville Ind.

State of Indiana Shelby County      } ss
On this ninth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty one, personally appeared before me the undersigned a Notary Public, by authority of law duly appointed and qualified within and for the County & state above mentioned. William Farnbrough a resident of the County of Shelby and state of Indiana, aged eighty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June seventh A.D. 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States about the first day of October in the year A.D. 1781, at Pittsburgh County in the state of Virginia, (where he then resided) for the term of six months, and served in the seventh Regiment of the Virginia state troops, (as a Private soldier), for the term of six months, under the following named officers, viz Captain Isaac Clemens, Lieutenant Vaughn, Major Conway, Colonel Fortner, and General Gates, and that he was engaged in the Battle of Camden under the Command of said officers, that he marched from the said County of Pittsburgh in the state of Virginia to Hillsborough in the state of North Carolina, thence to Guilford Court house in said state, thence to the Battle of Camden in the state of South Carolina, and was honorably discharged at New Garden in said last mentioned state about the first day of April A.D. 1782. That on or about the first day of May in the year A.D. 1782, he the said William Farnbrough again enlisted in the Army of the United States at Pittsburgh in the state of Virginia, (as a substitute for one) for a second term of six months, in the 7 th Regiment of Virginia state troops, and served in said

- Regiment, under officers most of whom were strangers, and whose names he cannot now recollect - excepting Generals Greene and General Lafayette - that he was engaged in the Battle of Yorktown, under the Command of the last named officers - and was also present at the surrender of Cornwallis - and was honorably discharged at Yorktown about the day of November 19 th 1782 - and that his written discharge has long since been lost or misplaced. This applicant further states, that in  by reason of bodily infirmity he he is unable to appear in open Court at the County seat of this County.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
Attest, Anselm Harnbrough his William marks Harnbrough sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first within written. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial seal at Shelbyville Indiana.
James Harrison Notary Public
And I do hereby declare that it is my opinion, that the above named William Harnbrough was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
James Harrison Notary Public

Shelbyville December 19 th 1851-
Sir: I herewith enclose the the application of William Farnbrough a Revolutionary soldier for a pension under the act of Congress of June 7 th 1832, having understood that there were Rolls in the department of the Virginia state troops, and in case his name should be found on said Rolls, it is thought that his application will be sufficient without further proof.
in sequence of
Yours Respectfully James Harrison
To the Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D. C.

38,826 Dec. 31 st 1857
App. of Rev. Farnborough
9 Original James Garrison Shelbyville Indiana
Wm. Lloyd Hon. David G. Heath Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D. C.
FREE

38.226 Dec 31 st 1857
App. of Rev.
Farmborough
9 Riggs
James Garrison
Shelbyville
Indiana
Hon. James E. Heath Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D. C.
FREE